Eva Crocker is a freelance editor and author who grew up in Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland).

She is the author of two novels, Back in the Land of the Living  and  All I Ask, which won the 2020 BMO Winterset Award and was long-listed for the Giller Prize.  All I Ask was also translated into French by Laurent Assuant and published under the title Tout ce que je demande by L’Interligne in 2022.

Her short story collection Barreling Forward was shortlisted for Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBTQS2 Writers and the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers. It won the Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction and the CAA Emerging Author’s Award, and was named a National Post Best Book. Her new short story collection  Bargain Bargain Bargain, will be published by McCelland and Stewart in 2027.

She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University, where she researched artistic response and resistance to large-scale resource extraction in Newfoundland and Labrador. 

She facilitates creative writing workshops open to people of all experience levels that prioritize experimentation and receiving feedback on works in progress.